Gas Price Breakdown in Charts: What Makes Up the Cost of . . . The stat that jumps out the most in Figure 1 is the major shift in the share of crude oil toward the cost of a gallon of gas since 2000 In February 2000, when gas was selling for $1 38 gal, crude oil accounted for 45%; by the end of 2011, by which time gas had more than doubled to $3 27 gal, that share had gone up to an astounding 80%

Petroleum - WikipediaChemist James Young noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a more viscous oil suitable for lubricating machinery In 1848 Young set up a small business refining the crude oil Young eventually succeeded, by distilling cannel coal at a low heat, in

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data | US EPAElectricity and Heat Production (25% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): The burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions ; Industry (21% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions): Greenhouse gas emissions from industry primarily involve fossil fuels burned on site at facilities for energy

Xenon - WikipediaXenon and the other noble gases were for a long time considered to be completely chemically inert and not able to form compounds However, while teaching at the University of British Columbia, Neil Bartlett discovered that the gas platinum hexafluoride (PtF 6) was a powerful oxidizing agent that could oxidize oxygen gas (O 2) to form dioxygenyl hexafluoroplatinate (O +

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